Sand Box - "Free"

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Sand Box is the Los Angeles based duo of Kylie Hazzard (guitar, bass, vocals) and Cameron Black (sax). Their new single, "Free," is an oddly avant-garde swirling of styles. Hazzard's vocals are fairly pop and jazzy, and are accentuated by Black's saxophone in a punctuating way. There's some distorted guitar that punches its way in and out. In fact, everything about "Free" is relatively mainstream except that nothing quite matches. It's like they took tracks from different songs in different genres and just played them at once to see what happens. And it works somehow. It's an odd song made that much more odd by how normal it almost is.

You can listen to "Free" below. For more on Sand Box, check them out on Instagram.

Dani Bell and The Tarantist - "Free"

Photo by Kristy Walker

We're just a couple of weeks away from the release of Dani Bell and The Tarantist's new album, and we have another new single to check out. As with the previous two, "Free" is in the same universe as the other songs but also quite different. There is still the trademark freaky new-ish indie folk-pop sound we've come to expect, but "Free" has this old school trip hop meets Luscious Jackson feel. There is also this killer fuzzed out guitar that seems to be following the song around until the end when it explodes into a completely unexpected and brilliant guitar solo. 

You can listen to "Free" below. Wide Eyed, the new album from Dani Bell and The Tarantist, will be out January 18 on The Redwoods Music. For more on Dani Bell and The Tarantist, be sure to check out their Facebook.